Regulations
I recently came across a couple of surveys of of American workers and their career satisfaction and thoughts of career changes. One thing is certain. . .we are not in the 1960’s when young people were told to “get a good job, hold on to it, and retire with a pension”. We now know that…
Over the last few days and weeks we have seen a surge in COVID related deaths in areas that had not necessarily had a surge in them yet. Over the course of the past ten months we have seen peaks and valleys in different localities during the course of this pandemic. We’ve also seen recent…
Have you ever been really, really busy and then as you try to get something done, nothing seems to work correctly? It seems like that happens to me a lot. Well, it is happening to our colleagues in the state of Indiana where they have recently surpassed the 8,200 number of deaths from COVID-19. Not…
As we move into the weekend we bring you some reading material including an article on how the indigent funeral program in Ohio has more requests than usual because of a combination of not only COVID-19 deaths, but an uptick in opioid deaths as well. We also bring you a video and news story out…
The Associated Press recently reported in this article that the United States will, for the first time ever, pass the 3 million mark in actual deaths recorded in a single calendar year. And, in what is not a surprise to anybody in the country in this COVID-19 year, the number of deaths will be an…
I had not intended to put out an Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily today, however, when I looked at articles that came to me this morning, I found one that was right in the news and “right up our profession’s alley” so to speak. I thought it might be timely with this in the…
I’ve learned, and am not surprised, that there are companies out there that really understand that the coronavirus pandemic has been detrimental in many ways. I never really thought about it but for those of us who like to get our continuing education hours in a live setting, we realize that those settings have been…
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read two different articles with two different perspectives of the death care business. One article brought out criticisms of our professions that some in the consumer world have held since the days of Jessica Mitford and her 1963 book entitled “The American Way of Death”. That article,…
I’m kind of tired of the word “unprecedented”. It seems every time that I turn around someone is using that term in relation to the world and times we have been living in since February in the United States. Yes, 2020 is different, but I’m not so sure that it is “unprecedented” for the upstaging…
